Isaiah 24:7-11

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 24:7

Wine, which people use to escape feeling the effects of sin, ultimately proves ineffective. Its source, the grapevine, decays (as a result of drought? cf. Revelation 6:5-6), and even the constitutionally lighthearted cannot escape groaning. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 24:7-20

The effects of the coming judgment 24:7-20Isaiah expounded on the effects of human sin in a poem, which follows. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 24:8

Music, likewise, cannot keep people’s spirits up continually. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 24:9

Even while people drink their wine they cannot bring themselves to sing for joy. Their beer is flat, as we say. It fails to provide the desired uplift. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 24:10

Isaiah described the world as a city marked by meaninglessness (Heb. tohu, Genesis 1:2), like the earth before Creation (cf. Genesis 11:1-9; Jeremiah 4:23). That the city is the entire earth is clear. The word "earth" occurs 16 times in this section of the text (Isaiah 24:1-20). A spirit of fear pervades this city. Modern existentialist writers have done a good job of articulating the meaninglessness of life without God that Isaiah also described here. [Note: See, for example, Albert Camus, The... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 24:11

Shut up to life without God, humankind despairs because all remedies have been tried and found wanting. Stimulants fail to bring lasting joy, what joy there is sours, and gaiety is gone. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 24:1-13

The Coming Judgment and Establishment of Jehovah’s KingdomThe subject is the overthrow of a power hostile to God’s people, with a description of the deliverance of the Jews and their future glory. The hostile power is not named, and the tone of the whole prophecy is so general that it is impossible to assign it to any occasion. With the anticipated overthrow of the enemy the prophet associates in thought Jehovah’s final judgment of the world. Most modern scholars assign this whole section to a... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 24:1-23

2. All class distinctions are obliterated and confused. 5. Defiled] i.e. desecrated by bloodshed (Numbers 35:33). Everlasting covenant] The phrase seems to allude to Genesis 9:16, the covenant with Noah and his sons. The bloodshed, upon which the great world-empires were founded, was a violation of this primitive covenant.7-9. The meaning is that every form of enjoyment has ceased. 10. Confusion] or, ’chaos’ (Genesis 1:2), so called because of the desolation awaiting it. No man, etc.] the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 24:7

(7) The new wine mourneth.—Each feature takes its part in the picture of a land from which all sources of joy are taken away. The vine is scorched with the fire of the curse, there is no wine in the winepress, the song of the grape-gatherers (proverbially the type of the “merry-hearted”) is hushed in silence. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 24:8

(8) The mirth of tabrets . . .—The words point to the processions of women with timbrels (tambourines) and sacred harps or lyres, like those of Exodus 15:20; Judges 11:34; 1 Samuel 18:6, as was customary in seasons of victory. (Comp. the striking parallel of 1Ma. 3:45.) read more

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